Origin of life: Bacteria more like people than like amino acids

[The smallest bacterium] is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.” – trailblazing evolutionary biologist Lynn MargulisSee also: John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, (New York, Addison-Wesley, 1996), p. 138-141File under: Simple life forms, origin of life …